The Black Sleep (1956)
- Directed by
- Reginald Le Borg
- Genre
- horror film, science fiction film
- Country
- United States
- Runtime
- 1h 21m
- Rated
- NR
- Rating
- 6.2 of 10 from 45 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
A 1950s horror film. A doctor uses a potion to put people into a deathlike sleep. His experiments attract the attention of a young surgeon who gets caught up in the doctor's strange work.
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What happens
The Black Sleep (American reissue title Dr. Cadman's Secret) is a 1956 American independent horror film produced by Bel Air Productions, directed by Reginald LeBorg, and written by John C. Higgins from a story by Gerald Drayson Adams. It stars Basil Rathbone, Lon Chaney Jr., John Carradine, Bela Lugosi, and Akim Tamiroff. Tor Johnson appears in a supporting role. The film was produced by Aubrey Schenck and Howard W. Koch, as part of a four-picture finance-for-distribution arrangement with United Artists. The film was released in the US in June 1956 as a double feature with the 1955 British film The Quatermass Xperiment (which was retitled The Creeping Unknown in the US). The Black Sleep was re-released in 1962 under the title Dr. Cadman's Secret on a double feature with Voodoo Island (which at that point was retitled Silent Death). (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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Donovan's Brain (1953)- More like this film, on a shelf you can walk up to.It's the lit case on the top shelf.